“A STONY PATH”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 244, 15 October 1931, Page 7

“A STONY PATH”

GERMANY’S PROSPECTS

OPENING OF REICHSTAG

COUNTRY WILL STRUGGLE ON WORLD ACTION AWAITED 9 re!c<rran’j Press A n oriotion—Copj right. I Received Oet. 14, 5.5 p.m. BERLIN, Oet. Oct. 13. Tho Reichstag was guarded like a fortress at the opening of the critical session. Tho Nazis and Nationalists did not attend, but are expected to launch an attack on the Government to-morrow. Communists frequently interrupted Dr. Brucning, who made a courageous fighting speech. He said that Germany must treat a stony path, and tho prospect of success and failure were about fifty-fifty. The Government was establishing an economic advisory body on which employers and employee- would bo represented to assist in drafting a wage price policy. The wage agreement system must be made more clastic to enable wages to be more rapidly adjusted to changing economic conditions. The Government was determined to carry on until the moment arrived for international co operation to prevent the worid from sinking into ch .os.

Dr. Brucning declared that the Ministries of Defence and the Interior had been united, as tho situation compelled the conecentration of the instruments of force against all the tendencies threatening the State. Ho added that the redemption of Germany’s debts was impossible if the world’s markets were increasingly closed to her.

President von Hindenburg, in a letter to Dr. Brucning, published this evening, announces his readiness to preside over joint meetings of the Government and the projected economic council.